Do you have any brohers or sisters? Try to answer in Chinese!

你好 robert groulx！

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thank you for the lesson transcript

favorite phrase is 你有兄弟姐妹吗?

i have 2 brothers and one sister

robert

Hello Samantha,

Thank you for your comment. 很好！

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Hello Jia,

Thank you for your comment. No, we can only say 没有 (méiyǒu), which is the negative of 有 (yǒu).

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我有四个姐姐和一个弟弟。😉

Hi, i have a doubt.

instead of mei2you3 can we also say bu2you3?

Hello Abriana Shepard,

Thank you for your comment. Yes, you can put them together to form one sentence, using the connecting word 和 (and). The sentence becomes:

我有一个哥哥，一个妹妹和一个弟弟。

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我有一个哥哥。

我有一个妹妹。

我有一个弟弟。

Is there way I can say all of this together without breaking it up into multiple sentences.

Hello Hebbe,

Good job! You can make the sentence shorter and it becomes Wǒ yǒu yī ge mèimei hé yī ge dìdi.

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Wǒ yǒu yī ge mèimei Hé Wǒ yǒu yī ge dìdi . 😄😄

Hello Julia (Jules) Whalen,

Thank you for your comment. Did you mean the tone of 个? It has the neutral tone here.

In this sentence '我们家只有我一个孩子。', 我们家 means 'my family', 只 means 'only', so 只有 means 'only has'.

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I also saw the comments below, wouldn't it be 家人 for family instead of 家只？

我很感谢

我有一个弟弟和一个哥哥。

他们是孩子。

What is the accent on 个 please?

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Wo you yī ge mèimei.

Hello Nipon,

Thank you for your comment, very good! 😄

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Wǒ yǒu yī ge mèimei .

Hello Alain

A typical native way is '我们家只有我一个孩子。'（my family has only one kid.), instead of '我是我们家唯一的孩子。’（I'm the only kid of my family.).

Wǒmen jiā zhíyóu wǒ yígè háizi ( this line has 3 tone variations.)

'我们家只有我一个孩子。' is a normal way to tell the family detail.

Wǒ shì wǒmen jiā wéiyī de háizi

'我是我们家唯一的孩子。’ is emphatic way about the fact, and generally used when this fact makes some difference around the topic.

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Amy

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我没兄弟姐妹。I was wondering: how do you say: "I am an only child"? Thank you!

I have a little brother named Aaron cung 我有一個小弟弟叫 Aaron